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BY THE SAME AUTHOR — 

FROM EXISTENCE TO LIFE 

(the science of self-consciousness) 

ILLUMINATION 
INSPIRATION 
THE WAY 



ANEWORDER OF 
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JAAMLS PORTER v^XILLS J^\D 



BRENTANOS 
NEW YORK, 1915 






Copyright, 19 15 
in U. S. A. and Great Britain 

BY 

JAMES PORTER MILLS 



MAY li 1915 

©CI.A397951 



AUTHOR'S NOTE 

The following pages represent but a 
feeble attempt to forecast in a few words 
the trend of a new order of teaching. It 
is scarcely possible to develop the spirit 
>r or working power of the teaching in 
an introduction to a pocket manual of 
meditation. This is of necessity left, 
first, to the oral teaching and second, 
to the larger books, particularly to the 
text book, From Existence to Life: 
The Science of Self -Consciousness y Psy- 
chical and Spiritual. When the reader 
has caught this spirit, he will find it of 
marvelous practical value in the renewing 
of the mind and the reforming of the 
personality. 

The meditations herein presented 
have evolved in the course of my work 
and have been used in my public and 
private classes for the awakening and 
drawing out of the spiritual nature into 
self-conscious recognition. 



A NEW ORDER OF 
MEDITATION 

There is a Principle of man, the men- 
tal being, upon which he is founded, 
and by which his mind lives and is main- 
tained, in the same way that there is a 
principle of proportion by which both 
the body of the universe and the body 
of man live and are maintained. 

The principle of proportion has modes, 
such as mathematics, mechanics, and 
chemistry, that are suited to man's re- 
quirements in dealing constructively 
with the chemical elements. So also 
the Principle of man, the mental being, 
has modes such as Life, Truth, Right- 
eousness and Wisdom, for the fulfilling 
of his destiny as a self-conscious being, 
and these are to be translated into terms 



2 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

of the man self -consciousness, just as 
the physical elements have been trans- 
lated by his creative or divine nature 
into terms of physical proportion. 

The divine nature is the Knowledge- 
nature of which the mind with its nine 
faculties is the instrument. We know 
that the mind not only cognizes facts 
through the senses, but that we place 
it in such relation with its Principle that 
it is able to conceive ideas that are repre- 
sentative of this Knowledge- Principle, 
which for instance in mechanical form, 
work out as useful scientific inventions, 
proving themselves to be mechanical 
children of the Principle by which worlds 
are framed. 

Moreover it is by virtue of the prin- 
ciple of chemistry that the chemical 
elements have come into existence, and 
that the material bounties and comforts 
that the earth affords have been pro- 
duced; so that man draws out of the 
Principle of Wisdom all that the mind 
needs for creative purposes in the struggle 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 3 

with his environment. All that he re- 
quires of elements for the renewing of 
his body and for his support and com- 
fort comes to him as a result of the crea- 
tive activities of this same Principle 
functioning in the elements of the earth. 

Now the Principle of man the mental 
being, of man in his bodily presentment, 
and of the universe in its body form, is 
one and the same Knowledge-Principle 
which operates and functions its Knowl- 
edge-Spirit to his mind. Man handles 
the elements as a master and fashions 
them to his desires. All the time that 
he is using his inherited divine creative 
power to deal with his environment in 
constructive activity in the industries, 
in science and art, the same Principle 
of All- Science is being called out by the 
instinctive intelligence, unconsciously to 
him, for the purpose of creative activi- 
ties of both body and mind. 

Man's body is but a device invented 
by subjective, instinctive man, called 



4 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

out of the Principle of his own existence, 
with the intent of transforming the 
unself -conscious man idea, or spirit, 
into terms of self-consciousness. The 
body, with its sensorium, is suited to the 
man transformation much as the electric 
bulb is suited to its office in producing 
light from subjective electrical sub- 
stance. Whether it be man, tree, or 
flower, the latent constructive desire, 
feeling, or idea determines the form 
of the mechanism that shall work the 
transformation. The Life, the Knowl- 
edge Principle never changes, but 
always answers to the call of con- 
structive feeling, whatsoever be the 
nature of the transforming instrument 
required. 

The Knowledge-nature, as has been 
said, is the divine nature of man. It 
consists first of Principle, second of the 
man instinct inherent in the Knowledge- 
Principle; third, of the mental faculties 
officed in a mechanism, — the brain, 
suited to the purpose of transforming 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 5 

the instinctive creative feeling in and 
by which the man has being, into terms 
of self-conscious cognition and use. In 
other words, it is the divine nature that 
translates instinctive feeling from its 
primary realm of the involuntary and 
unself -conscious, through the interme- 
diary of a mechanism, — the body as a 
whole, — to the secondary state of the 
voluntary and self-conscious. 

Man, then, real Man, is prima- 
rily subjective, and in the subjective 
state of his Knowledge-Principle he 
ever abides. The Knowledge-Principle 
through the divine nature, is the Life 
and Knowledge resource of personal 
man who is the offspring of instinctive 
action, and who now walks the earth, 
clothed in the elements, and self-con- 
scious. In this personal state of exist- 
ence, man through the intuitional office 
in the brain, is now able to receive intui- 
tions from the instinctive side of exist- 
ence, and in so doing he has already 



6 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

proved himself able to deal with his 
environment scientifically. 

But what of his own personal states 
as centered in the different provinces of 
mind and body? His emotions, sensa- 
tions, thoughts, — his consciousness gen- 
erally? What use has he made of the 
Knowledge- Principle — this inheritance 
through his divine nature — as related 
directly to his personal consciousness? 

The Truth is that while man has come 
into personal consciousness of that hemi- 
sphere of Principle by which he moulds 
his environment scientifically to his de- 
sire, and has become master in creative 
science and art, he has not entered con- 
sciously into his heritage of Principle 
as it is related to his manhood on the 
self-conscious side of existence. When 
awake to this other hemisphere of his 
Knowledge-Principle he may deal with 
his personal consciousness, may deter- 
mine the nature of it and may call 
straight out of his subjectivity in the 
God- consciousness, thoughts and emo- 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 7 

tions that make for divine personality. 
Thoughts and emotions that are as 
worthy to live and as deathless on the 
self-conscious side of existence as is 
their Substance, the subjectivity of the 
Omniscience in which they took their 
rise. 

Now that this continent of Original 
Consciousness, just below the threshold 
of the mind, has been discovered, we are 
through the science of self-consciousness 
taking measures to open up the office 
of intuition in the brain life, in order to 
receive from the newly discovered hemi- 
sphere of the Substantial Life its rich 
treasures of latent Godhood. Through 
this divine nature we are now to trans- 
late these treasures into corresponding 
emotions and sensations in our personal 
self-conscious life, as did the Master. 

We see then, that in common with 
the objective universe, objective self- 
conscious man has taken his rise in the 
subjective Principle — Omniscience. 

"The Father dwelling within" here- 



8 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

tofore mystical and incomprehensible to 
us, we now find to be divine, subjective, 
unself-conscious man, — the Son, ever 
dwelling in the bosom of the All-Father. 
This All-Father is original Life, the all- 
embracing term for Whom is Principle; 
the existence-term in likeness thereof 
in pure subjectivity, is Man* the Son, 
who becomes the " Heavenly Father* ' of 
personal man. That is to say, this Son 
of the All-Father is pre-physical man, 
who becomes in his activities the Heav- 
enly Father of his own offspring, indi- 
vidualized, self-conscious man; and also 
the mediator between the province of 
self-consciousness which he has created 
and the Principle. 

The Son, when embodied and self- 
conscious of the All-Father, in the ful- 
filling of his office of Redeemer toward 
mankind who are not yet born of the 
Spirit, we find to be the Christ of Scrip- 
ture made personal in Jesus. We also 
find that the Heavenly Father who feels 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 9 

every action of the mind and every heart's 
desire of the self-conscious, personal 
man, his offspring, is none other than 
the indwelling Christ, the Son of the 
All-Father. 

For the Absolute Principle has no 
correspondence to secondary life, save 
through the medium of the Son. It is 
truly said that God's eyes are too pure 
to behold iniquity, but through the 
" mediator" a way out of ignorance or 
sin into knowledge and holiness in self- 
conscious life, is provided. It is indeed 
the Heavenly Father "who knoweth 
what ye have need of" before you put 
it into words and who renders the equiva- 
lent of every desire in responsive emo- 
tion ; and these deeds of the mind enter 
soul-life to become incarnated during 
the activities of bodily commerce. ' l The 
Father dwelling within" is in Truth 
the Christ to personal man, the mediator 
between the All-Father, the Man- Prin- 
ciple and personal man in his self- 
conscious state of existence. 



IO A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

These meditations are founded upon 
the teaching of the Master of Galilee 
concerning the " Father dwelling within, " 
and also upon the findings of deductive 
science, namely: that from nothing, 
something cannot come. It is evident 
that something is, therefore something 
must always have, been, something un- 
limited by time or senses, extending 
into another realm which is, and which 
antedates all appearance in the elements. 
What then precedes the appearance? 
What precedes the appearance of an 
ordinary invention, or any form of body 
or mechanism? The inventor through 
his desire first calls it out of its absolute 
state in Principle into concrete form 
in the mind. He then gives it mechani- 
cal form in the elements. Yet the 
substance of the invention, that which in 
the Principle responded to the desire of 
the inventor and gave it form still 
abides in the Principle. 

So with man, — instinctive feeling or 
desire has called him out of his subjec- 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION II 

tive state in Principle into concrete form. 
Yet like the mechanical invention, he 
coexists with his Principle both before 
and after he has appeared in the elements. 
But here the analogy ceases, for man 
extends his domain of original power 
and intelligence into the realm of his 
bodily existence, and further, he is 
capable of entering into self-conscious- 
ness of his Principle of All-Knowledge. 

By meditation I do not mean intel- 
lectual meditation wherein the mind is 
concentrated on a particular subject, 
in a state of thinking. Spiritual medita- 
tion is very simple; so simple that at 
first one can hardly believe that any- 
thing is being accomplished. It con- 
sists merely in repeating the words of 
the meditation over slowly, just often 
enough to keep the mind from wandering, 
or from forgetting to say them; never 
heeding the thoughts that may, and 
will at first, arise involuntarily; never 
stopping to resist this kaleidoscope of 



12 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

thought-images that presents itself, but 
simply carrying out your purpose of 
repeating the words, assured that your 
"Heavenly Father " (your divine nature) 
knows what your purpose is. In other 
words the desire that the meditation ex- 
presses could not have been conceived 
in the mind at all except through the 
cooperation of subjective pre-physical 
man and the Principle. It is, there- 
fore, already known within. The 
mere act of faithfulness under the 
difficulties in the involuntary thought- 
realm where the habit of contrary de- 
sires has been established, counts 
mightily in bringing responsive feeling 
from the Principle, by virtue of which 
the words of the meditation were origi- 
nally conceived. 

We must remember that words are rep- 
resentative of a certain order or intent, 
and that the words of spiritual meditation 
lead straight back to Original Spirit, by 
which they came into existence. 

In spiritual meditation "I" always 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 13 

means the divine nature, in contra- 
distinction to the "I" of personal con- 
sciousness, which has been founded 
on the mind's experience as interpreted 
through the senses 

The divine nature "I" is the Christ 
within, on the involuntary and instinc- 
tive side of existence. It is the " I " that 
not only carries on all the scientific pro- 
cesses of bodily life and incarnation by 
means of its inheritance of the Knowl- 
edge Substance, but it also functions 
life to the mind, and the Substance- 
feeling out of which in due order ideas 
and thoughts are born. It is this "I" 
of creative Knowledge that ever waits 
below the threshold of the self-conscious 
office of the mind, ready to function to 
the intuitional office of the brain, on the 
one hand the creative Spirit of Knowl- 
edge nascent from the Principle, or on 
the other hand, race feeling and personal 
experience out of the soul store, in 
accordance with the evolution of self- 



14 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

consciousness in the individual, or in 
answer to the desire or necessity of the 
moment. 

"I am" in meditation always means 
the divine nature of man, as if it were 
speaking from its Substance the Prin- 
ciple, as in one of our meditations spoken 
by the Master, "I am the Way, the 
Truth, and the Life " within thee. This 
is imagined to be the Christ nature pass- 
ing from its involuntary office to the prov- 
ince of self -consciousness, in answer to 
the desire of the mind expressed in the 
meditation, thus bringing its spirit into 
contact with the personal consciousness 
of the individual, — to be interpreted 
into ideas, thoughts, or actions. These 
in turn are given back to the involun- 
tary realm as so much heavenly treasure 
added to the soul store. This store 
increasing day by day becomes more 
and more an involuntary inspiration to 
the mind and to the vital processes of 
personal life, making also for health 
and length of days. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 5 

It is well to remember always that 
our meditations are not entered into 
by personal man, but by the divine 
nature; that "I am" means that the 
divine nature has come into self -con- 
sciousness of its Principle far enough 
to desire further spiritual birth. 

So also with the meditations begin- 
ning "Thou art"; for example, "Thou 
art the Christ, the Son of the living 
God within me." This again is the 
mind acknowledging the divine nature 
as the man-correspondence of the Prin- 
ciple, — the idea being to get the mind 
more and more into conscious realization 
of its oneness with the Principle now; 
its oneness with Goodness and Wisdom 
and Health and Righteousness by which 
it may solve all the problems of personal 
life. ' 

I have only attempted here to give 
just a running sketch of the nature of 
the teaching as a help to an understand- 
ing of this new order of meditation. In 



1 6 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

my book From Existence to Life: the 
Science of Self -Consciousness, this, the 
greatest of all sciences, is fully set forth 
and formulated in a way that meets the 
demand both of the scholastic mind and 
the ordinary mind of common sense. 
In the present writing I have scarcely 
hinted at the health aspect of the teach- 
ing, but it will be readily comprehended 
that meditation "lays the axe at the 
root of the tree," generating a new spirit 
in which disease can find no correspond- 
ence. It is therefore the most powerful 
and the most fundamental method of 
healing, and of placing one's health on a 
sound basis. 

Experience has shown that the intel- 
lectual comprehension of the theory of 
this teaching does not by any means 
bring with it the full working power or 
realization of the spirit of the same ; but 
it does lead those who have grasped the 
truth of it, to hear the oral teaching in 
which the practical spirit seems to be 
more intimately conveyed. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 7 

Nevertheless there are many natures 
that will find great peace and illumi- 
nation by following these simple sug- 
gestions. 

It is often asked how often one should 
meditate, and how long each meditation 
should be continued. Ten or fifteen 
minutes in the morning, and the same 
in the evening ought to be the minimum 
of time to allow for the practice of 
communion with one's Life and Knowl- 
edge-Substance, that promises in the 
ultimate to yield an hundredfold more 
of all the good things according to sense 
perception, and finally Life Eternal. 

Then too, it is most helpful, right in 
the midst of the activities of the day, to 
stop still even for a minute or two, and 
enter the meditative silence. The day 
will thus yield much more profit in all 
that counts towards life and abundance. 

Those who have ample time at their 
command should practice as much as 
comes easily and naturally with inspira- 



1 8 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

tion, remembering not to seek trance- 
like states of long comfortable reverie. 

As to posture, experience has proved 
that meditations taken while sitting up- 
right are much more virile and effective 
than those taken when lying down. When 
meditating, the attention should not be 
fixed upon any nerve center or upon any 
part of the body, even for healing. The 
mind belongs in the brain, let the atten- 
tion center there, never below the chin. 

The mind allies itself through desire 
with the involuntary divine nature, 
which is the Life and Source of all the 
creative activities in the body, and thus 
healing is induced. 

Spiritual healing is induced through 
desire and trust, while psychological 
healing is more or less a matter of mental 
dominancy. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 1 9 

Synonyms for Principle 

Life 

Spirit 

Goodness 

Substance 

Truth 

Rightness 

Wisdom 

Faith 

Health 

Love 

Omnipotence 

Omniscience 

Omnipresence 

The Knowledge-Principle 

The Knowledge-Substance 

The All-Father 

The Great Within 

The Infinite 

Synonyms for the Divine Nature 

Pre-physical Man 
Subjective Man 



20 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

Instinctive Man 
The Christ 
The Son of God 
The Mediator 
The Heavenly Father 

Example in Self- Conscious Existence 

Jesus 

The Regenerate Man 
The Word Made Flesh 
A Man Born of the Spirit. 



SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY 

The intellectual perception of the 
truth of man's origin and continuous 
life in God prevalent in the advanced 
teaching of to-day, has led to a system 
of affirmation which constitutes a kind 
of spiritual psychology, a sort of kinder- 
garten to the spiritual realization which 
should follow the intellectual perception. 

These affirmations have proved most 
useful in time of great stress, when spirit- 
ual realization was impossible, stimu- 
lating the mind to an acute conviction 
or belief in God, and bringing about 
constructive, vital activity, thus saving 
the situation for the moment, but leav- 
ing the mind in a state of psychology 
or belief, rather than inducting it into 
a further knowledge of God. This for 
beginners is a legitimate practice, but 

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22 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

it does not make for spiritual advance- 
ment. 

These same affirmations put as medi- 
tations, primary and secondary, intro- 
duce a safe and sure method of spiritual 
development, because there is no pos- 
sible opportunity for the personal "I" 
to become deceived into thinking that 
it is something of itself; whereas the 
continual affirmation, "I am good," for 
instance, might become a piece of self- 
deception and self -stultification, making 
a man believe, in his relative condition 
of consciousness that he is absolute, 
while his neighbor can only too plainly 
perceive the contrary fact. Instead, 
then, of saying as an affirmation, "I am 
good," we put the idea either as a pri- 
mary meditation: M I am thine Infinite 
Goodness within thee," or as a secondary 
meditation: "Thou art mine Infinite 
Goodness within me." 

The following formula of spiritual 
psychology is offered as an aid to the 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 23 

beginner. It should be committed to 
memory, and such parts of it as seem 
to be adapted to the situation of the 
moment should be repeated over and 
over with great conviction until the 
threatened condition is overcome. Then 
when the mind has risen to its proper 
dominion, one should make good with 
a suitable spiritual meditation, confirm- 
ing in Truth the vital action already 
set in motion. 



REALIZATION IN SPIRITUAL 
PSYCHOLOGY 

There is no life, substance, or intelli- 
gence apart from Thee, Thou Knowledge- 
Substance by which the worlds were 
made. I would acknowledge Thee, and 
Thee only as my Life, my Health, my 
Strength, and my Eternal Wisdom. 

God works in me to will and to do all 
that my wisdom leads me to do. 

I, in my Divine Nature, came forth 
from God, by His Power and by His 
Wisdom. I am formed of His Sub- 
stance ; God is my Divine Inheritance ; I 
live and move and have my being in 
God; I will acknowledge Him in all my 
ways. 

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A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 2$ 

I will walk only in the ways of God 
my Life; I will acknowledge only the 
Good ; I will love only the Good. 

I will stay my mind on the Good, so 
shall I be delivered from the thrall of 
sense, and the bondage of superstition 
and fear. With my mind stayed on God 
there is nothing to fear ; there is no fear 
in God and there is no fear in His like- 
ness which I am, in my divine nature. 

I acknowledge God through my Di- 
vine Nature as my only working Power 
and Wisdom. 

The elements have no power over me ; 
God never gave the air dominion over 
me to give me cold or discomfort ; I will 
therefore not bow down to the air nor be 
enslaved by it. 

Food has no power to put me in bond- 
age ; I will make use of food to the honor 
and glory of my Life. Neither heat 



26 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

nor cold has dominion over me; I will 
not have them to rule over me. I will 
arise to the dominion God has given me, 
by creating me of His Own Omnipotent 
Substance. 

I will not bow down to, nor serve 
emotions of fear, nor any other emotion 
that bears no likeness to God; I will 
arise and go to my Father. 

I now affirm the freedom that I have 
inherited through my Divine Nature, as 
I also deny any bondage to past experi- 
ence or human heredity. 

I praise Thee, I bless Thee, I venerate 
Thee, O my God, my Father, my Life. 

Thou wilt never leave me nor forsake 
me. Let me never leave Thee, nor 
forsake Thee, Most High. 

God is my Health, God is my Strength, 
God is my Life. 



SPIRITUAL MEDITATIONS 
i. Infinite Goodness. 

2. Omniscient Goodness. 

3. Infinite Holiness. 

4. Omniscient Principle. 

5. Infinite Spirit within me. 

6. I am Spirit. 
Teach me. Spirit, righteous think- 



7 
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8 
9 



Infinite Life within me. 

Infinite Consciousness within me. 



10. Infinite Goodness, I would Thee 
know. 

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28 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

11. The Divine Love is within me. 

12. I am thy Original Feeling within 
thee. 

13. Wisdom, Wisdom, Omniscient 
vital Wisdom. 

14. Peace, Peace, Omniscient vital 
Peace. 

15. Oh God! give me Knowledge. 

16. Oh Life Omniscient within me, 
give me Knowledge. 

17. I am thy Holy Knowledge- 
Substance. 

18. In my deep Origin I am per- 
fectly divine. 

19. I am thy Omniscient Knowledge- 
Substance within thee. 

20. I am thy Holy Spirit of Right- 
eousness within thee. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 29 

21. I am thy Original Spirit of 
Knowledge, thy High Counsellor within 
thee. 

22. I am thy Creative Power and 
Principle within thee. 

23. Be still and know that I within 
thee am God. 

24. I am thy Almighty Protection 
and Bounty within thee. 

25. I am thy Holy Principle of 
Faith, and thy Involuntary Self-control 
within thee. 

26. Faith in God; have faith in God. 

27. I am Light, and in Me is no 
darkness at all. 

28. I am thy Holy Spirit of Truth 
within thee. 

29. I am thine Omniscient Principle 
of Life, Faith, Love within thee; trust 



30 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

thou in Me, for I will never leave thee 
nor forsake thee. 

30. That I may know the Truth 
within me. 

31. My Creator and I are one. 

32. The Father and I are one. 

33. Faith in Omniscient Life. 

34. I would know Thee, oh Most 
High within me, that I may abide 
realizingly in Thee. 

35. Let not the will of finite experi- 
ence, but the will of the Infinite Spirit 
be done in Me. 

36. Infinite Health within me. m 

37. Let the Kingdom (or Spirit) of 
Health within me come. 

38. I am thy Holy Spirit of Health 
and thy Involuntary Self-control within 
thee. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 3 1 

39. I acknowledge Thee and Thee 
only, as my Health-producing Power 
and Wisdom. 

40. Be still and know that I within 
thee am God, I will have Health and 
not disease; I will have Knowledge 
and not ignorance; I will have Peace 
and not turmoil. 

41 . I am He that inhabiteth Eternity 
within thee. 

42. I am He that inhabiteth the 
Omniscience within thee. 

43. He that dwelleth in the secret 
place of the Most High shall abide under 
the protection of the Almighty. 

44. Behold the Lamb of God that 
taketh away the sin of the world. 

45. I am the Resurrection and the 
Life within thee. 



32 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

46. I am the Resurrection-Principle, 
the Life-Substance within thee. 

47. My Grace is sufficient for thee. 

48. I am thy Creative Life within 
thee; trust thou in Me; abide in Me and 
live. 

49. I am thy Spirit of Peace and 
Power within thee. 

50. I am meek and lowly in heart. 

51. I am the Christ, the Son of the 
Living God within thee. 

52. Lo, I am with you alway, even 
unto the end of the world. 

53. I am the Way, the Truth, and 
the Life within thee. 

54. This is my Beloved Son, in 
Whom I am well pleased, hear Him. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 33 

55. I can of my own self do nothing; 
the Father that dwelleth within me, 
He doeth the works. 

56. I am thy Holy Spirit, thy Com- 
forter, thy Principle of Love and Peace 
within thee, trust thou in Me. 

57. Arise, shine, for thy Light is 
come. 

58. There is a Spirit in man and the 
breath of the Almighty giveth them 
understanding. 

59. Ye shall know the Truth and 
the Truth shall make you free. 

60. Thou art my Divine Spiritual 
Protection within me. 

61 . I am thy loving Life within thee. 
I will satisfy all the desires of thy heart. 

62. I will both lay me down in peace 
and will sleep, for Thou, Lord, alone, 
makest me to dwell in safety. 



34 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

63. I will both lay me down in peace 
and will sleep for Thou, alone, oh my 
Divine Nature within me, makest me 
to dwell in safety. 

64. Holy Son of God within me, I 
go to sleep in Thy care, let me awake 
feeling Thy Love. 

65. Holy Divine Nature within me, 
offspring and likeness of the Infinite 
Knowledge-Substance, I go to sleep in 
Thy care, let me awake feeling Thy 
Love. 

66. Let there now appear in my active 
feeling-nature, the great and luminous 
calm of oneness with Thee, Most 
High within me, Thou Almighty Part- 
ner of my self-conscious life. 

67. Inspiration (repeat about six 
times) 

Infinite Spirit of Inspiration within me. 
Inspiration of Life. 
Inspiration of Knowledge. 



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A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 35 

Inspiration of Goodness. 
Inspiration of Wisdom. 
Inspiration of Health. 
Inspiration of Truth. 
Inspiration of Omniscient Love. 
Inspiration of Eternal Life. 
(Repeat over for ten or fifteen minutes 
with expectancy.) 

68. Holy Son of God within me, 
teach Thy self-conscious child of Thy 
Father, that I may abide in Thee, even 

.as Thou dost abide in Him. 

69. Principle, Principle, Principle. 
Infinite Principle, Infinite Principle. 
Principle is all that I have. 
Principle is all that I need. 
Principle is all that there is. 
Principle is always with me. 
Principle is always for me. 
Principle never fails. 

Principle always succeeds. 
Principle is my Life within me. 
Principle is my inheritance. 



36 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

I was conceived in Principle. 
I was born in Principle, 
I am environed by Principle, 
I live and move and have my being 
in Principle. 

Principle, Thou Infinite First, I 
would acknowledge Thee as my Life. 

There is no principle or power of evil, 
There is no substance or intelligence 
apart from Thee, Thou Principle Most 
High within me. 

Thou art the Life of my body, 
Thou art the Life of my mind, 
Thou art the Life of all the experience 
I have had which I would now re- 
deem unto Thee. 

Thou art the Life of my hearing, 
Thou art the Life of my seeing, 
In all the ways of sense, in all the ways 
of mind, I would know Thee O Thou 
Holy Spirit of Knowledge within me. 
To know Thee is Life Eternal. 

70. That I may know the Principle 
by which I came into existence. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 37 

71. That I may know the Principle 
of my mind. 

72. That I may know the Spirit of 
the Substance-Spirit, the Spirit of Om- 
nipotence, the Spirit of Omniscience. 

73. Let the Kingdom of Omniscience 
within me come, let the will of the Om- 
niscience within me be done in the psy- 
chical and physical nature as it is in 
the Kingdom of Spirit. 

74. That I may be directed by my 
Divine Nature in all the ways of my life 
to-day; let the Divine Nature within 
me come forth. 

75. Let the Divine Nature come 
forth and direct me in all my relations 
with people. 

76. Let the Divine Nature come forth 
and direct me in all my business rela- 
tions. 



38 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

77. Let the Divine Nature come 
forth and direct me in all the ways of 
my self-conscious life. 

78. That my self-consciousness may 
be one with the Principle of my Life, 
and not opposed to it. 

79. I thank Thee that Thou hast 
heard me, and that Thou dost always 
hear me. 

80. I am thy Knowledge-Nature, the 
Son of the Principle of All-Knowledge 
within thee; learn of me. 

81. I am thy Divine Nature within 
thee; no man cometh unto the Know- 
ledge-Principle, the Omniscient Sub- 
stance, but by me. 

82. I am thy Holy Principle of All- 
Knowledge by which thou hast come 
into existence; learn of Me and be wise. 

83. Thou art the Holy Spirit of All 
Knowledge by which I came into exist- 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 39 

ence; I would know Thee, that I may 
abide in Thy Wisdom. 

84. I am thy Holy Knowledge- 
Substance, and the involuntary con- 
trolling Power of thy mind. 

85. That I may know the Omnis- 
cient Principle of Creation, upon which 
my conscious life subsists. 

86. I must keep faith with my Know- 
ledge-Principle, for my Knowledge- 
Principle is my Life-Substance, my 
Love-Substance and the Substance of my 
entire personal presentment. So I must 
get into self-conscious relation with my 
Life-Principle, that I may enter into 
my divine inheritance of Life, Health, 
Wisdom, and Love. 

87. That I may know Thee, my 
Life-Knowledge-Love-Substance ; while 
I am coming to know Thee, Most 
High within me, let me abide in loving 
trust of Thee. 



40 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

* 88. Teach me thy Way, Man of 
Knowledge within me; I would walk in 
Thy Truth. 

89. In the Kingdom of Knowledge 
there is no prejudice, there is no judg- 
ment, there is no condemnation. Let 
the Kingdom of Knowledge within me 
come. 

90. In the Spirit of Knowledge there 
is no prejudice, no judgment, no con- 
demnation, nor is there any other 
malignant spirit, of any sort or kind, 
in the Infinite Spirit of Knowledge. Let 
the Infinite Spirit of Knowledge within 
me come. 

* In those meditations where certain denials 
appear in contrast to the subsequent affirmation, 
it is well to repeat the denials over and over 
many times in the spirit of the affirmation, mak- 
ing sure not to entertain a spirit of condem- 
nation towards that which you are denying, but 
to abide all the time in the creative consciousness 
of the spiritual affirmation. 



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91. In the Spirit of Knowledge there 
is no ignorance, there is no fear, there 
is no weakness; there is only Infinite 
Faith. Let the Spirit of Knowledge 
within me come. 

92. In the Spirit of Eternal Life there 
is no deception, there is no ignorance, 
there is no disease, there is nothing 
perishable. Let the Spirit of Eternal 
Life within me come. 

93. In the Kingdom of Righteous- 
ness there is no deception, there is no 
evil, there is no fear, there is only Infi- 
nite Wisdom. Let the Kingdom of 
Righteousness, the Spirit of the Omnis- 
cient Substance, within me come. 

94. Thou art opening my heart to 
Thy Holy Spirit of Truth, that I may 
live a normal, intuitive, spiritual Life. 

95. I thank Thee that Thou art 
opening my heart to Thy Holy Spirit of 







42 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

Truth, and that I am more and more 
each day realizing the spiritually inspired 
life. 

96. While I in my personality am 
coming to know Thee, O Most High 
within me, let me learn to trust Thee, 
to trust Thee implicitly. 

97. Thou wilt reveal to me the de- 
ceptions of my present state and wilt 
give me wisdom to know, and grace to 
follow in, the Way of Regeneration — 
the Way of Life. 

98. Thou wilt cleanse my feeling- 
nature of all sadness, condemnation, 
resentment, and regret, and of all de- 
pendance upon any other than Thee, 
Most High within me, and Thou wilt 
feed my mind and heart with the Bread 
of Life straight from Thine own Omnis- 
cient Substance, and wilt enable me in 
my personality to express my divine 
inheritance of Health, Wisdom, and 
Love. 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 43 

99. I thank Thee that all sadness, 
condemnation, resentment, and regret 
are being melted away by the incoming 
of Thy Divine Love to my personal 
consciousness. 

100. That my personal conscious- 
ness may be inspired by the Holy Spirit 
of Wisdom, and that out of this chrysalis 
of human personality my Divine Man- 
hood may be brought to birth. 

101. Thou Divine Nature, Christ 
of my soul, Mediator between my per- 
sonality and the Holy Life within, 
regenerate this mask of human con- 
sciousness which I have called myself, 
that it may fitly represent the Divine 
Substance — the Father dwelling within. 

102. 0, Thou Infinite Divine Christ- 
Nature, Son of God within, as yet un- 
born to me, Thou wilt reveal Thyself, 
that I may create a noble character and 
consciousness which shall be fashioned 
out of Thine own Divine Substance, 



44 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

and shall testify of Thee, not only in 
my own regeneration, but in that of 
others, and in the hundred-fold that 
shall be added because of the lifting up 
of the Son of Man within. 

103. That I may love the Lord 
my God with all my heart, with all 
my mind, with all my soul, and with 
all my strength, and in this Spirit of 
God-Love may I meet and enjoy my 
neighbor. 



A MEDITATIVE REALIZATION 

104. I am the Christ, the Son of the 
living God within thee. By thy desire 
I am come to regenerate thy conscious- 
ness. 

I will keep thy feet from failing, I will 
keep thy heart from quailing; I will 
inspire thee with Truth, with knowledge 
of Me. 

I will heal thee of all ignorance of 
soul, and of its likeness in the flesh. 

I will enable thee to form a new per- 
sonality within the chrysalis of the one 
that thou hast called thyself, a person- 
ality which shall have loving dominion 
over all the earth-consciousness. 

Fear not, I am always with thee. 
Call upon .Me and I will answer thee. 
Thou art in My keeping, in Me there is 
nothing to fear. 

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46 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

I am the Health-Spirit within thee, 
the Healing Spirit. Call upon Me in 
time of need. 

Trust in Me at all times and I will 
cause great signs and wonders to appear. 
At thy word the lame shall walk, the 
blind shall see, the ears of the deaf shall 
be unstopped, and all manner of sick- 
ness shall be healed. 

, Trust thou in Me, in Me there is 
nothing to fear. Trust thou in Me. 

Note. — Meditations are most effective when 
they are first thoroughly learned by heart. 

Number 104 will not only be found to have 
great regenerative power, but also a quieting^ 
comforting quality, and when used during a 
wakeful night it induces sleep. 

Much could be said of the different medita- 
tions, but experience will discover it all. 

To speak generally, it is better for those who 
have had little or no teaching, to use first the 
shorter and simpler meditations, jmd not to 
change too often to others. 



NOTES FROM A MEDITATION 
CLASS 

Let us first invoke the Spirit of 
Health. "Thou art my Holy Spirit 
of Health within me." 

This is the acknowledgment of God 
as the Spirit of Life, and of the Health 
which must come into our self-conscious- 
ness in order for us to be able eventually 
to realize God as the Spirit of Health. 
We realize something of the spirit of 
chemistry, and of mechanics, which 
works out our bodily problem, and also 
the state of normal-mindedness, as we 
account normality, but the Spirit of the 
Health-Substance we do not realize. 
We realize facts, and enjoy the fact of 
being well, but the conscious mind does 
not realize that the health of the body 
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48 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

depends on the mind being imbued with 
a certain Spirit, which is the Health 
Spirit. So let us meditate for a while 
saying the words over, as if they were 
from the Infinite, within ourselves, — 
"I am thy Holy Spirit of Health within 
thee, trust thou in Me." 

In the old Scriptures we have the 
terse laconic record, "Asa was diseased 
in his feet, his disease was exceeding 
great, yet in his disease he sought not 
to the Lord, but to the physicians. 
And Asa slept with his father s." 

I want to get a lesson of healing out of 
this. What does this record mean to 
us? Why was Asa singled out to have 
the fact of his disease, his seeking help 
from the physicians, and his death, 
recorded for posterity? Does it mean 
that it is wrong to go to the physicians? 
This record, coming as it does from 
religionists, may perhaps be looked on 
as one-sided, but it certainly tells us 
something about Asa. He must have 
had a higher idea than to go to the phy- 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 49 

sicians or he would not have been held 
up in this way for taking their advice. 

The record presupposes therefore, 
that Asa knew better, that he had within 
himself a higher perception, but did not 
live up to it in the moment of need, and 
was lured away from it by some old 
adversary in his mind. There were the 
physicians on the outside, but he knew 
a higher way of getting health and heal- 
ing, of getting it from within, from "the 
Lord." If he had not known this there 
would be no point in the record. He did 
not live up to the Truth he had per- 
ceived, but in the hour of his temptation 
he fell. The first obstacle he met, he 
gave in to, and ceased to meditate on 
"the Lord/' for this is what "seeking 
the Lord" means. 

Since God is subjective, is Omnis- 
cience, we must turn the mind to consid- 
ering this Subjectivity, as in meditation. 
Asa could not send for the Lord, object- 
ively, as for the physicians, so instead 
of sending his mind to the Lord in 



50 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

meditation, he sent for the physicians, 
and thus changed the character of 
his meditation from the divine to the 
human. 

We find ourselves prone to do the 
same thing. We change the character 
of our meditation very frequently in 
the hour of temptation when the mind 
meets with some obstacle to our higher 
idea. For instance, we go into a room 
for the purpose of meditating, and some- 
thing which we profess not to enjoy 
nearly as well as our meditation engages 
our attention, and we too, in a mental 
sense, " sleep with our fathers" — we 
11 sleep" to the spiritual idea. Why 
do we do this? Because the mind is 
not trained to stay with our meditation. 
There is a hurdy-gurdy in the street, 
we go off and attend to that ; someone is 
coughing, and that rivets us and we are 
asleep spiritually. We " sleep with our 
fathers." 

Now this Truth that we are following 
means everything to us if we abide in 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 5 1 

it, but we need not be discouraged. 
If we cannot abide in it to-day we may 
hope to do so to-morrow. You know 
that if we cannot learn a given lesson 
in one day, we go on and on, and so 
progress along the lines of ordinary 
mundane knowledge in our struggle with 
our environment. We do not jump up 
and down in the same place for months 
and months, but we progress by steady 
earnest effort. So too it must be with 
our spiritual progress, and thus we shall 
attain to the knowledge of our Health- 
Spirit, Health to the soul, and the cor- 
responding health of body which grows 
out of it. 

In the New Testament we have an- 
other terse direction: "Agree with 
thine adversary quickly whiles thou art 
in the way with him, lest at any time 
the adversary deliver thee to the judge 
. . . and thou be cast into prison/ ' 

Now we know something of the Mas- 
ter's teaching, and may therefore be very 
sure that this does not mean that we 



52 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

are to capitulate or submit to the ad- 
versary's terms. 

The teaching of Jesus is a teaching 
regarding the bringing forth of the Divine 
Nature. " Agree with thine adversary 
quickly . . . lest the adversary deliver 
thee to the judge . . . and thou be 
cast into prison.' ■ The adversary and 
the judge and the prison are all within. 
They are metaphors. All this is meta- 
physical teaching of how to attain to 
Divine Manhood, and to understand 
this teaching we must know what are 
the terms of agreement which we have 
to make with the adversary within. 

The Son of God comes forth from God, 
and this coming forth means the coming 
into self -consciousness. The self -con- 
sciousness of the Divine Man must 
therefore be a true representation of the 
Source from which He came. This is 
the sole meaning of the Christ existence 
in self-conscious life. 

x\gree with thine adversary — come to 
an understanding with him. Does that 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 53 

mean resist him? No, resistance is not 
in this teaching. We can see that Jesus 
does not mean that we should resist, for 
he says, "Whosoever shall compel thee 
to go a mile, go with him twain." On 
what terms then shall we come to an 
agreement? It can only mean that our 
adversary must be healed by the Son 
of God within, must feel the Good we 
are functioning, and agree on the terms 
of the Good, through the feeling subtly 
awakened in him by our abiding in the 
Spirit of All Good. Continue to abide 
in the Good through the whole trans- 
action, for only in this manner can the 
birth of the Christ into the realm of the 
self-conscious personality go on con- 
tinuously. 

We are now being taught to abide with 
God no matter what happens on the 
outside, and by so doing all our adver- 
saries will melt into agreement with 
their in-dwelling Christ. We are Sons 
of God being born, and we must not 
personally resist evil, but trust to the 



54 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

Christ Nature to overcome evil with 
Good, since all Power is given to the 
indwelling Man. In this way, and on 
these terms we actually come into a 
oneness with God. If we abide in the 
Good the adversary lays down his arms, 
he meets the Spirit generated in the 
personal realm by our abiding, which 
dissolves the spirit of fight. Remember 
all this transaction of coming to an 
agreement takes place first in the meta- 
physical realm, and then becomes mani- 
fest in the outward presentment and 
conduct of the personal being. 

In all the events of our life we must 
remember to abide continually in the 
Good, to be in constant touch with our 
Most High, and let all vexed questions 
be settled in the involuntary realm by 
the in-dwelling Son of God. 

Now in our high moments of percep- 
tion and feeling we have accepted the 
great teaching of the Master as our 
guide in dealing with our daily affairs. 






A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 55 

Shall we then, as heretofore, take up 
arms, visible or emotional, and sally 
forth against our enemy as though he 
were without? The enemy to our peace, 
to our progress in Truth is our own 
store of emotion within, which we are 
mistakenly directing towards another, 
while all the time it abides as a canker 
in our own souls, joining forces with the 
old personality formed by past educa- 
tion and experiences while living from 
sensuous premises. Each personality 
differs, and if two are not in accord, the 
one that knows the most must abide in 
the Truth. While the Spirit of Truth 
brings about this agreement, we should 
remember that this is not done by the 
voluntary man, but by the involuntary 
man, that is to say, measures are taken 
by the voluntary man which bring about 
in the involuntary realm that feeling 
which results in agreement. 

Now we have all spent some years in 
working out of old conditions with what 
faithfulness we could, and yet perhaps 



56 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

some of us have not realized that we 
have only one great adversary, and that 
is within ourselves. We must deal with 
that adversary by abiding in God, and 
if he be not overcome at once we had 
better pray that the condition that is 
disturbing us may not let us off, until 
we have done with it, because it is the 
very thing that is calling for our trust 
in the Divine Nature, which is able to 
overcome the whole gamut of emotions 
which this stumbling-block represents. 
When we have overcome the enemy by 
abiding in God we shall be more able in 
our daily life to meet the various contin- 
gencies which have tripped us up before, 
and to overcome them by thus abiding. 
The time to learn to abide is not so much 
in the turmoil of life, as in your own 
chamber, or in the meeting-place where 
special opportunities of overcoming are 
provided. 

We give the enemy reality if we resist, 
for we treat it as though it had power 
apart from the great Principle (or in 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 57 

religious language Omniscience) in which 
we are abiding. Do not resist, just abide 
like a little child, while the condition 
resolves. It may take a little time to 
generate the feeling that shall be great 
enough to forgive the sins of the race 
and our own sins up to the moment we 
are having our temptation, which is 
what "the enemy " represents. 

But abide. You say it is not easy to 
abide at such a moment, but it is easier 
than you think. If you start out with 
the feeling that your life depends on 
your overcoming and that you are not to 
overcome by fighting, but are to abide 
and let the result be brought about 
as unconsciously as the beating of the 
heart takes place, it will not be so hard. 
You will fall at once into the attitude of 
meekness and lowliness, knowing that 
your life depends on your abiding in 
that attitude. Realize that you can do 
nothing, but that your Life can do this 
just as it beats your heart — in this way 
you will surmount your stumbling-block. 



58 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

For instance, a temptation is offered 
to be angry. Now in cold blood we 
know that there is a better way of 
settling matters than temper, but when 
the temptation comes we do not always 
remember this. 

Because we are invited by some per- 
sonality or by our own education to be 
angry or to condemn shall we do it? 
No, we have not to answer for another. 
We have simply to abide, and we can 
perhaps give that other a little help 
on the way by thus abiding. Let us 
remember that we are ourselves a com- 
plete world of personality and each one 
has this overcoming to do, of changing 
that personality and bringing out an- 
other. Are we going to fail, or to over- 
come by abiding? We can help others 
most not by talking and arguing but by 
abiding. Do not go away to-day simply 
feeling that you have had a wonderful 
time which you have enjoyed, but go 
away and the first adversary you meet, 
just abide. You say you cannot do 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 59 

this? Just let go. Abide. Do not 
fight, but abide, and trust the Power 
that has brought you along to help you 
to abide. 

Knowledge is meek and lowly in 
heart, it never thrusts itself forward, it 
does not come like a mighty flood and 
sweep us away, it does not crush itself 
into us, but it comes in moments of 
divine harmony and offers itself to us. 
Knowledge is the door of Life Eternal 
and Life Eternal does not manifest in 
discord, ignorance, and bodily disturb- 
ance, but is always peaceful, still, and 
great. It does not argue, there is no 
ground for argument, but when one is 
not in the arguing spirit and is abiding, 
it will come and sup with us. 

Our only full salvation is knowledge 
of God. Abide then in God. If there 
is anything higher than knowledge of 
God, go to it quickly but if there is 
anything lower, then drop it. 

Abide now and get your healing. I 
do not ask you to remain poverty- 



60 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

stricken, but to come into wealth and 
get your healing by abiding in the Spirit 
of Health and let transmutation take 
place in your bodies from terms of sense 
to terms of mind. This will be accom- 
plished not by abiding in the thought 
of wealth or gain of any kind, but by 
abiding in that great Spirit out of which 
those things are born into the universe. 

But this transmutation of body into 
terms of mind all depends on the mind 
being at a working oneness with its 
Principle. Just so much of the Spirit 
of Health as we are able to open to, so 
much healing shall we get. This Spirit 
can enter through the sound realm, by 
means of the spoken word, and it can 
enter through the soul realm — silently. 
The one meets the other and enters the 
personality. 

The Great Master said: "Say not lo 
here, nor lo there, the Kingdom of 
Heaven is within you." I want to re- 
mind you of a converse fact. Your 
whole kingdom of enemies is within: 



A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 6l 

Say not lo here, nor lo there, for enemies 
— all your enemies are within. Looking 
through sense we may think we see our 
enemies on the outside — it is all a de- 
ception — they are within — personalities 
only call them out into objective form. 
Your kingdom of hell is within, it is not 
vested in any other person, so we know 
just what we have got to do, we have to 
rebuild our world of personality. Jesus 
said that He could call ten legions of 
angels and escape from His enemies 
through fighting physically, but it was 
not his purpose to do so, He chose to 
abide. On another occasion He "hid 
himself and went out of the temple 
going through the midst of them, and so 
passed by." 

When we have redeemed the self 
within we need not live in the world of 
enemies any longer. We can look on 
and see what people are and form our 
opinions of them calmly and quietly — 
but we shall not dwell in a world of 
enemies any more. If they are harmo- 



62 A NEW ORDER OF MEDITATION 

nious we enjoy them and abide, and if 
they are inharmonious we are able to 
recognize that, and to abide none the 
less, thus raising them by the greater 
spirit which grows out of abiding stead- 
fastly in the Good ourselves. 



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